February 13th @ 7:00 pm
at the Highland Arts Theatre.&nbsp\; Tickets are $15.00.

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Recently
awarded the prestigious 'Rogers Best Canadian Film Award' by the Toronto F
ilm Critics Association\, locally made feature film 'Werewolf' premiered a
t the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and has earned critical pra
ise from The New Yorker\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Hollywood Reporter.

'Werewolf' is local filmmaker Ashley McKenzie's first featur
e length film and was shot in Sydney\, New Waterford\, Whitney Pier\, and
Glace Bay with an entirely Cape Breton cast and an almost entirely local c
rew including cinematographer Scott Moore\, composer Youth Haunts\, and pr
oducer Nelson MacDonald.

'Werewolf' tells the story of Blaise
and Nessa\, two marginalized methadone users in a small town. Each summer
day\, they push their rusty lawnmower from door-to-door pleading to cut g
rass in exchange for drug cash. Nessa wants to leave her life in Cape Bret
on\, while Blaise lingers on the verge of crashing altogether. The couple\
, bound by their relationship\, watch their dreams of escaping begin to dr
own.

'McKenzie fuses a documentary-like observational precisi
on with a creative imagination that endows her characters struggles with a
quietly monumental grandeur.'&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&
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bsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; The New Yorker

'This is a raw\, intense movie circling on despair\, hopelessness
and inevitable dead ends. It is about the dark. But in plumbing the pitch
black\, Werewolf offers the distinct hope of a brighter future for Canadi
an cinema.' &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
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nbsp\; The Globe and Mail

'Those of us who see Canada as an
ideal refuge for the problems currently plaguing America should check out
Werewolf\, a stark\, disquieting portrait of a pair of recovering drug add
icts trying to scrape by in the suburban wilderness of Cape Breton Island.
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p\; The Hollywood Reporter